Taylor Frankie Paul on Hooking Up With Dakota After Engagement

Taylor Frankie Paul is owning up to her mistakes!

News broke on Thursday, September 3, that the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, 32, did indeed get engaged on her unaired season of The Bachelorette — and then hooked up with ex Dakota Mortensen after returning home from filming.

Taylor opened up about the incident with her Mormon Wives costars Jessi Draper, Mikayla Matthews and Mayci Neeley in a scene filmed for the show’s upcoming fifth season, an exclusive clip of which was shared by Hulu’s “Get Real” podcast on Thursday.

Later on Thursday, Taylor took to Instagram to share a screenshot from the scene alongside an audio of someone saying, “Yeah, listen… we f***ed up.”

“What my calls sounded like when I had to admit what I had done.. and then some. And when I say we, I mean me. By all means make your judgements now,” she captioned the post.

Taylor also teased that there may be a bigger revelation to come when Mormon Wives season 5 premieres on Hulu on Thursday, September 10.

“Yeah, listen, I’ll just say it now … the ‘spoiler’ released today wasn’t even the spoiler that’s yet to come,” she wrote over the screenshot.

Speaking to Jessi, Mikayla and Mayci in the scene from the upcoming season, Taylor confirmed that one of her Bachelorette suitors did “get down on one knee and propose.”

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“[I said,] ‘Yes.’ Yes, I did [get engaged],” she said. “Then, I come home. Obviously [me and ex Dakota] were texting. ‘When are you going to be home?’ I don’t know how it led to it, but he came over.”

“Umm … I think I know how that happened,” Mikayla, 26, responded.

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While Taylor didn’t reveal the name of the Bachelorette suitor she got engaged to, she essentially confirmed that it was Doug Mason during the conversation. Jessi, 34, noted the similarities between Doug and Dakota, telling Taylor, “They have the same initials. They’re both from Idaho. It’s so weird.”

Taylor has recently been embroiled in custody disputes with Dakota, 33, and ex-husband Tate Paul over her three children. The reality star shares daughter Indy, 8, and son Ocean, 6, with Tate and son Ever, 2, with Dakota.

Dakota was awarded temporary custody of Ever in March, but in July, a judge ruled in favor of Taylor receiving more unsupervised time with the toddler. She and Dakota also have mutual protective orders against each other, which require them to stay 100 feet apart for a period of three years.